Ahoy, a lurker unlurks!

[CDAMBROSIO1@vaxc.hofstra.edu]

Greetings all,

Well, I've been chugging along here on the information superhighway for 
three or four months now and "lurking" in this group almost as long.
I've passed everybody's comments about the Disney corporation on to
Uncle Eisner and now I'm here to basically say "Hi."  

First, last semester in animation history class, I did a paper on 
Carl Barks, Uncle Scrooge, and Ducktales.  This was, of course, before
the real McDuck/imposter McDuck discussions.  Anyway, one of the things
that I found in my "research" was that Barks didn't like working in the
Disney animation studios.  So, comics were perfect work for him and now
people like us read and reread his stories.  Now I always thought he was 
a nice, old guy, so why all the negativity from him (as I sense it from
this list)?

Second, as another Don worshipper (hi Don!) might I just say you can 
ramble all you want.  I am proud to admit that I paid twelve bucks for
a copy of "Son of the Sun."  It was only one of three or five issues
I needed to have Gladstone's entire first run.
 I love the detail in your art.  I know your covers from twenty feet away
and your pages from ten.  It's distinctive and makes use of all its space.

I don't have any specific story comments, as I don't have all that much 
duck stuff here with me at the moment and I don't know what's going on 
at the news stands here that I usually pick my comics up at.  They seem 
to have stopped carrying the Disney comics or lost all their issues, 
cause they haven't had any for quite awhile.  I'll have to pick them up 
at home, because I am very much looking forward to the Lo$.

Finally, though I haven't been posting long enough to have earned the right
to post so long a message, I thought you all might find it interesting
that during the beginning of Gladstone's run I sent them a bunch of 
Duck one pagers a couple of times.   I got back "not interested in 
one pagers,"  so I sent plot summaries for a couple of longer stories.
Then Disney took over and some of my stuff got sent back to me from Gladstone
saying "try Bob Foster."  I did and he sent me his "writer's guidelines,"  
and I sent stuff back and this is where I forget what happened next.
I know I got an internship at MAD magazine (I've been thisclose to a sale 
since) but I was wondering what the situation would be for occasional new 
stories from unknowns like myself.  
 David, I imagine we're about the same age, any comment?

Okay, that's enough.  
Cheerio and fare thee well...

					BUTCH